Popular fanfiction site Archive of Our Own went down for maintenance early this morning. Now, the website is claiming it may take up to a month to come back online. bit.ly/3W3eqVZ
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Oct 30, 2026 · 5:01 AM UTC

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Readers/Writers will remember this day. Before Halloween of 2026. We had our own Nightmare before Christmas.
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A month without AO3. Somewhere a language model just felt a disturbance in its training data.
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ao3 down for a whole month?? fanfic readers everywhere in shambles 😭
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Just in time for No Nut November LOL
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this may be a good thing. maybe the newbies who are fucking up fandom can go find a new shiney thing to play with.
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I do worry this will have a knock on effect on fandom activity and it won't be the same when the archive is back functioning again. A month might as well be a decade the way fandom moves these days.
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Human history will forever remember how the Great Depression of Ao3 2026, was way worse than the Great Shutdown of 2023💔😔
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WHERE IS GEMINI GOING TO GET HIS TRAINING DATA NOW?
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Bad news my favorite stuff is in ao3 Good news I still have my wattpad account full of crappy fanfics
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my commander's backstory had nowhere to go
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Apparently they got hacked 😬
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Who knows, the site might be up and running by Thanksgiving this year. Something we could all be thankful for.
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A month without AO3 is going to send half of fandom back to rereading their own bookmarks. Hope the volunteers get some rest.
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What?? A month?? But are you joking, right? Tell me it's not true! Fuck, really i hate this....😑
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AO3 has since updated stating that the site was the victim of a cyber attack and it may take that long to completely repair everything without losing any data.
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May god take our souls, ITS GONE FOR A MONTH
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What I want to know is the cause. Was the site attacked? It's not normal to have maintenance that last weeks.
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A lot of writers may move on. If this takes a month to repair they got hit hard. After a month people will likely have found other uses for their time.
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at least if everyone was complaining about ads, I'm temporary on @wattpad for a time being as a backup.
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Well this sucks I really wished to read more Wilerunner fanfics. But no, we had to wait for 1 month of maintenance to make it back online. Now I have to read on Wattpad instead!
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Thank god I was currently on space battle reading a fanfic about Tanya the evil in a world with a system.
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Melee users are giving AO3 an approximately 42% chance of coming back online by Nov. 12th. What do you guys think?? beta.melee.markets/market/D9…
Will AO3 be back up by Nov 12?

Will AO3 be back up by Nov 12?

Archive of Our Own (AO3), the biggest fanfiction site on the internet, went down early on Oct 29. Later that day the official AO3 status account said a fix "will take around 2 weeks but it could be...

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A month offline is a long time for a site people treat like a library. That maintenance window just turned into a full sabbatical. 📚
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The internet's most important library isn't run by Big Tech, it's run by volunteers on donations. A month offline is what happens when millions rely on infrastructure nobody wants to fund. Every fandom just learned why you download your favorites.
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Happy Halloween 🎃
Image from 𝓣𝓪𝓮𝓫𝓮𝓪𝓻 김태형 , 정국 (@sassyisV)
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Image from Cosnime (@CosnimeGamer)
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That AO3 logo somehow booked a month-long sabbatical 😂
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noooooo 😭
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😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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My stories 🥲🥲
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It's the most terrible Halloween❤️‍🩹 I will cry until you come back😭
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Bir ay mı? Bakım süresi alt tarafı bir web sitesi için dünya turu süresine bağlanmış resmen. Bu kadar uzun süre erişim kesintisi hem içerik üreticileri hem de okuyucular için ciddi bir kopuş demek. 🙄
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